Who Command Does not Resolve the Hostname - Solaris 11.4 (Doc ID 2557862.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 27, 2020

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Goal

Why who  doesn't return the FQDN in Solaris 11.4 ?
 

root@solaris:~# who
oracle     pts/2        May 28 04:31    (10.xxx.xxx.xxx)

Nslookup properly resolving the name

root@solaris:~# nslookup 10.xxx.xxx.xxx
Server:         192.xxx.xxx.xxx
Address:        192.xxx.xxx.xxx#53

Non-authoritative answer:
200.192.xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa     name = xxxxxx.yyyyyyy.oracle.com.


root@solaris:~# pkg list entire
NAME (PUBLISHER)                                  VERSION                    IFO
entire                                            11.4-11.4.3.0.1.5.0        i--

Before OpenSSH 6.8 the default was to record hostname in /etc/utmpx from where who -a command will print the string.  Now the utmpx field stores ip addresses, not hostnames.

Recording the IP address is superior from a security perspective. 

Solution

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